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"The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities."
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"Real education is never acquisition of knowledge but training of character."
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"Real education leads to the liberation of the mind."
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"There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly but then less is learned there so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other."
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"After all, what is education, if not the unparalleled means to transcend the self- imposed physical limits of the mind and the body."
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"Experience is a sacred education."
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"Getting an early education and then continuing it throughout life is a brilliant way to achieve success and live a purposeful life."
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"My expectations from the university were perhaps too idealistic. I had dreams of learning things about innovation and discovery in the field of technology, but all of it hit the ground hard, when I faced with the pathetic reality of the so-called higher education system. To my surprise, I found myself stuck behind the walls of meaningless facts, figures and rankings. It occurred to me that, it was not actually a place for education, rather it was a place where you go to get your head filled with useless undigested information, that you'd probably never use throughout your entire life. It was not education, and moreover, it was definitely not science."
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"Keep reading, Keep learning."
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"Anything that you learn becomes your wealth, a wealth that cannot be taken away from you; whether you learn it in a building called school or in the school of life. To learn something new is a timeless pleasure and a valuable treasure. And not all things that you learn are taught to you, but many things that you learn you realize you have taught yourself."
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"Discovery Determines The System Of Education."
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"The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged - debating - helped shape my interests in public policy."
Policy
"Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist."
Development
"I think in part the reason is that seeing an economy that is, in many ways, quite different from the one grows up in, helps crystallize issues: in one's own environment, one takes too much for granted, without asking why things are the way they are."
Economy
"There must have been something in the air of Gary that led one into economics: the first Nobel Prize winner, Paul Samuelson, was also from Gary, as were several other distinguished economists."
Influence
"But individuals and firms spend an enormous amount of resources acquiring information, which affects their beliefs; and actions of others too affect their beliefs."
Action
"In debate, one randomly was assigned to one side or the other. This had at least one virtue - it made one see that there was more than one side to these complex issues."
Virtue
"Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education."
Education
"I went to public schools, and while Gary was, like most American cities, racially segregated, it was at least socially integrated - a cross section of children from families of all walks of life."
Life
"I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights."
Justice
"As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability - the difficulty that those who pay for information have in getting returns."
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